Insignia of an Indian Police officer with rank of deputy superintendent of police

In India, senior officers of the rank of assistant superintendent/assistant commissioner of police or above may belong to the national Indian Police Service or state police services, whereas Indian inspectors and constables belong to the individual provincial police forces.The rank of Assistant Commissioner is also used in Indian Income Tax, Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax Administration, as an officer of Indian Revenue Service.

In Pakistan, assistant commissioner is a rank of the Revenue Administration, which is of two sub-types: Land Revenue, also known as District Management Group, and Inland Revenue. The assistant commissioner of Land Revenue is an official appointed/posted at the sub-district level responsible for managing land records, revenue receipts related to land transfer, water cess and crop cess etc. He is also given magisterial powers in the capacity of sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) to settle disputes . The Central Superior Services (denoted as CSS; or Bureaucracy) is an elite permanent bureaucratic authority, and the civil service that is responsible for running the civilian bureaucratic operations and government secretariats and directorates of the Cabinet secretariat.[1] The civil service defined itself as "key wheels on which the entire engine of the state has to move."[1] Derived from the colonial legacy of the former British Empire- Assistant commissioner selection is made after passing the CSS exam and including name in DMG group.

In Bangladesh, Assistant Commissioner is the entry level post of field Administration of the Administrative Service while the entry post of central Administration is Assistant Secretary. This rank is also used in other services like tax, customs and police,only in metropolitan areas:as Assistant Commissioner of police(ACP)

In the New Zealand Police, the rank of assistant commissioner is junior to the rank of deputy commissioner and is senior to the rank of superintendent. assistant commissioner is the top rank that can be achieved by a sworn member other than by statutory appointment. There are currently five assistant commissioners with separate areas of responsibility.